• View a demonstration of of latest development version of CoralReef HTML report generator
• Download a copy of the CoralReef package
• List of applications (and a brief summary of their purpose)
• Frequently asked questions about CoralReef (under construction)
• CoralReef online documentation
• Installation instructions for CoralReef Software Suite
• List of compatible hardware for the CoralReef suite.
• Information on splitters for OCXmon hardware.
• Frequently asked questions about Coral (the predecessor of CoralReef.)

Mailing List

The coral-dev mailing list is devoted to the discussion of Coral. Topics including OC3mon and OC12mon hardware, software and analysis scripts, and the possibility of new tools.

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Further Reading

• White paper: The CoralReef Software Suite as a Tool for System and Network Administrators. (2001-11-20) [postscript] [pdf]
• White paper: The architecture of the CoralReef Internet Traffic monitoring software suite (2001-04-24)
• Putting the Coral Reef Software Suite to work (1999-01-18)
• The Coral Reef Software Suite (1998-09-22)
• Introduction to the CoralReef Software Suite (1998-08)

Other projects related to CoralReef

• NLANR/MOAT's NLANR's Coral-Tools page (the precursor to CAIDA's CoralReef)
• vBNS's Network Traffic and Performance Monitoring
• University of Waikato's Applied Network Dynamics (WAND) web site on their Dag2 network cards.

Teaching efforts using the CoralReef Software Suite

• Advanced Communications and Network Systems, Tony McGregor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
  • The CoralReef suite in Advanced Communications and Network Systems

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Sample Report for NRN on Tue Dec 8 10:43:39 1998
Cumulative Distribution of Packet Sizes

Thanks to the National Science Foundation NLANR/MOAT Cooperative Agreement (No. ANI-9807479), and the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research for making the traces available.

1147788 Packets, 574818218 Total Bytes
203 Optioned Packets, 7454 IP Fragments
17388 IP packets with DF set
1140 non-IP packets